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- 2023 - April
- Escape to Scotland’s Untouched Rivers for an Unforgettable Atlantic Salmon Fishing Experience
- The Ultimate Atlantic Salmon Fishing Bucket List: Top Destinations to Visit in Scotland
- Scotland’s Best-Kept Secret: The Thrilling Experience of Fly-Fishing for Atlantic Salmon
- From the Scottish Highlands to the Scottish Borders: The Best Places to Catch Atlantic Salmon in Scotland
- Hooked on Scotland: The Unbeatable Experience of Atlantic Salmon Fishing
- From Novice to Pro: The Ultimate Guide to Atlantic Salmon Fishing in Scotland
- Master the Art of Scottish Atlantic Salmon Fishing: Tips and Techniques from the Experts
- Get Hooked on Scottish Atlantic Salmon Fishing: An Unforgettable Adventure Awaits
- The Ultimate Guide to Atlantic Salmon Fishing in Scotland: Springtime Adventures with Country Sport Scotland Members
- 2023 - August
- 2023 - February
- The Thrill of Stalking Wild Red Deer in Scotland: An Unforgettable Adventure
- The Magic of Fly Fishing for Trout in Scotland’s Hidden Gems: A Journey through Scotland’s Best-Kept Secrets
- The Best Destinations for Roe Deer Hunting in Scotland: A Comprehensive Guide
- The Enchanting Experience of Fly Fishing for Salmon in Scotland
- Practical Tips for a Successful Trout Fishing Trip in Scotland
- The History and Traditions of Deer Hunting in Scotland: A Storied Past and a Vibrant Culture
- The Beauty of Fly Fishing in Scotland’s Glens and Mountains
- Roe Deer Hunting: A Challenging but Rewarding Experience in Scotland
- Salmon Fishing: A Scottish Tradition with a Modern Twist
- The Allure of Trout Fishing in Scotland’s Lochs and Rivers
- Discovering Scotland’s Passion for Deer Stalking
- 2023 - July
- 2023 - March
- A Guide to Fishing Guides in Scotland
- The Best Rivers for Fishing in Scotland
- The Best Fishing Lodges in Scotland
- Fishing for Grayling in Scotland: Tips and Tricks
- Fishing for Pike in Scotland: Where to Find Them and How to Catch Them
- Tips & Techniques for Fly Fishing for Salmon in Scotland
- Scotland’s Great Brown Trout Fishing: The Ultimate Challenge
- Scotland’s Top Sea Fishing Locations
- Discovering Scotland’s Lochs: The Greatest Spots for Brown Trout Fishing
- Scotland’s Trout Fishing: All You Need to Know
- Scotland’s Top 10 Fishing Spots: Where to Cast Your Line for the Best Fishing Adventure
- A guide to the different types of fishing available in Scotland
- The best time of year to go fishing in Scotland
- A Beginner’s Guide to Scottish Fishing: Where to Begin
- An Introduction to Fishing in Scotland: What Makes it So Special?
- 2023 - May
- 2023 - November
- 2023 - September
- 2024 - February
- 2024 - March
- Auctions and Raffles
- GWCT Grand Grouse Draw Raffle 2019
- Inaugural SCSTG Auction
- SCSTG Auction 2019 Current High Bids Link Below
- SCSTG Auction 2019 Catalogue and Postal Bid Form Links Below
- SCSTG Auction 2019
- Superb Sporting Lots in BASC Online Auction
- River Dee Trust Auction 2016 Is Underway
- Sealed Bid Auction in aid of the ADMG Project Fund
- The Country Market & Sporting Sale from 22nd April – 7pm on 8th May 2016
- Heather Trust Prize Draw 2015
- River Dee Trust Auction 2014
- West Sutherland Fisheries Trust Fundraising Auction
- River Dee Trust Autumn Online Auction now live
- River Dee Spring Raffle
- Books and Publications
- Trout Fishing in Assynt – an essential guide
- FOR THE LOVE OF COUNTRY SPORTS BY LINDA MELLOR
- ‘Shoot in Scotland’ 2019/20 is now available
- SCSTG in the European Press again
- SCSTG in French hunting magazine ‘Voyages de Chasse’
- SCSTG in the ‘Schottland’ issue of ‘Jagdzeit’
- ‘Shoot in Scotland 2017/18’ now available online
- SCSTG Hard Copy Newsletter – August 2015
- Association of Deer Management Groups (ADMG) Publication – 2014 Stag Season Review
- Your chance to win Bruce Sandison’s ‘Rivers and Lochs of Scotland’
- Crumpet lands writer in the doghouse
- Shoot in Scotland 2013/2014 now on sale
- New Book Launch – ‘Robertson’s Guide to Field Sports in Scotland’
- Covid-19
- Lifeline coronavirus funding aids one hundred country sports tourism businesses
- Covid-19 – Local Authority Discretionary Funds
- Webinar – VisitScotland ‘Country Sports Tourism Restart Fund’
- Additional government funding for businesses affected by Covid-19 restrictions
- Survey Link and Covering Letter From SCSTG Chair
- Framework of Appropriate Covid-19 Precautions for Country Sports – Updated October 2020
- ‘Consistent approach’ to coronavirus restrictions needed for Scottish accommodation businesses
- Press Release – SCSTG STATEMENT ON SCOTTISH COUNTRY SPORTS
- COUNTRY SPORTS IN SCOTLAND: A PROPOSED FRAMEWORK FOR APPROPRIATE COVID-19 PRECAUTIONS
- Covid-19 Update – Latest on the easing of restrictions
- Cabinet Secretary provides reassurance over lack of support for sporting businesses
- SCSTG Requesting Support for Country Sports Businesses during Covid-19 Pandemic
- Fishing & Covid-19 – Update from Fisheries Management Scotland
- Covid-19 Update
- Deer Stalking/Hunting
- Personal safety for hunters, stalkers and anglers
- Attempting a MacNab
- Scotland’s Country Sports – Open for Business
- Country Sports Tourism and Brexit
- Social Media and Goat Stalking on Islay – Lessons from ‘Goatgate’
- SCSTG and The Gift of Grouse at a Reception at the Scottish Parliament
- ‘Game for Growth’ Country Sports Tourism Strategy
- ADMG Embarks on Project Funding Campaign
- Country sports worth £155m to Scotland’s rural economy
- Chronic Wasting Disease of Deer
- BASC announces new dates for deer stalking on the Isle of Arran.
- Chronic Wasting Disease in Deer – Current Situation in Scotland
- Scottish Country Sports Tourism Group launches German language website
- Journalists from all over Europe given taster of Scotland’s country sports during SCSTG press days
- HIGHLAND FLING- LOOKING FOR STALKING IN SCOTLAND
- Red deer rut in Scotland becoming increasingly important for tourism
- SCSTG Celebrates 10th Anniversary
- Deer rutting boost for Scottish tourism
- BASC offers deer stalking opportunities on the Isle of Arran
- Affordable Stalking in Scotland – Highland stags on a budget
- Deerstalking Fair, Kelso
- Events and Courses
- Excellence in Country Sports Customer Care Course – 26 November 2015
- Excellence in Country Sports Customer Care Course, Wednesday 1st April, 2015 – Letterfinlay Lodge Hotel, Spean Bridge, Inverness-shire PH34 4DZ
- Evening of Country Sport Aims to Target Further Tourism
- Fund-raising rifle shoot in Badenoch
- Fishing & Angling
- Sea Angling Diary 2021
- Filling the Void – Guest Blog from William Peake of Twin Peakes Fly Fishing
- Scottish Government – Salmon Conservation Measures
- 2016 Trout Season Opens
- Salmon Fishing Season Underway
- Meikleour Ladies’ Charity Day
- River Tay Salmon Season Opens
- ‘Landmark’ angling day on River Tay as season opens
- Scottish Fly Fishing Film – Once in Your Lifetime
- Sir Ian Botham helps launch salmon fishing season
- Autumn Salmon Fishing
- A fantastic new initiative for young anglers – The Callum Mackenzie Cup, donated by Ballogie Estate.
- Food and Drink
- Game Meat and Fish Recipe – Pheasant Pasty
- Game Meat and Fish Recipes – Nichola Fletcher’s sliced venison steak with vegetable ribbons
- Game Meat and Fish Recipes – Roe Deer Tagine with Butternut Squash, Raisins and Harissa from Scotland’s Natural Larder developed by Maxine Clark
- Game Meat and Fish Recipes – Warm Salad of Nith Salmon, Friars Carse Country House Hotel, Auldgirth, Dumfries
- Eat Game Awards – Recipe ‘Sweet and Sour Rabbit’
- Eat Game Awards 2019
- Game’s afoot as chefs campaign to get grouse on more menus
- To celebrate Scottish Food and Drink Fortnight readers of the Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday are being offered a 20% discount off Hopetoun online orders…
- Hopetoun Launches Butchery Range Online
- Game Fairs
- Summer at SCSTG HQ
- SCSTG in ‘The Scotsman’
- Getting Ready for The Game Fair, Ragley Hall, Warwickshire 27th-29th July
- Junior Macnab Challenge at the GWCT Scottish Game Fair, Scone Palace
- Countdown to The Game Fair, Hatfield House 28-30 July
- Team SCSTG and Game Fair Season
- Home from Elmia
- All set for the Elmia Game Fair!
- IMPORTANT NEWS: UK GAME FAIR CANCELS
- Clay shooting competitions open to all at BASC Gamekeepers’ Fair
- CLA Game Fair 2013
- Selling Scotland: Scottish Country Sports Tourism Group goes international
- Guest Article
- Guest Blogs
- Guest Blog : Shooting Club and Simulated Game at Teasses Estate
- Araminta Campbell – Tweed Crafted from the Landscape
- Guest Blog – Macnab Challenge with Links House Dornoch
- Lycetts – Guest Blog
- A Scottish Break – blog from SCSTG Prize Draw Winner Sarah Harding
- Adventure to Ballathie House – guest blog by Michelle Feasey
- Scotland January 2018 – Guest Blog from Magnus Berg of CMB Shooting, Sweden
- Gundogs and Gundog Trials
- News
- Coorie Inn welcomes you
- BASC chairman hails tourism heroes at Scottish Game Fair
- Scottish Country Sports Tourism Awards 2024
- Stalkers Blog
- Scottish Game Fair returns for its 35th year
- Araminta Campbell: New Partnership
- We are hiring!
- SCSTG Receives VisitScotland Sector and Destination Operational and Market Readiness Funding
- Award for the Angus Glens Moorland Group
- SCSTG hosts European Journalists
- SCSTG Welcoming European Journalists to Sample Scottish Country Sports
- Aout e Newsletter
- August e – newsletter Deutsch
- Augusti e-nyhetsbrev Sverige
- 2018 SCOTTISH RURAL AWARDS OPEN FOR NOMINATIONS
- State of the Market – August 2017
- Air Weapon Licensing in Scotland
- Gamekeepers Fight Fire with Fire
- Grouse Prospects 2016
- Cabinet Secretary Supportive of Scottish Country Sports
- Scottish Rural Hustings Thursday 7 April, 2016, The MacRobert Pavilion, Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston
- Scotland’s grouse shooting season holds firm despite weather headaches
- Grouse season ends on a high thanks to female shooters
- SCSTG at the SNP Conference
- BASC and the SCSTG at the SNP party conference
- Tourism Minister welcomes new country sports tourism study
- New research shows shooting generates £2 billion for the economy, boosts conservation and provides jobs
- Finzean Estate wins Golden Plover Award 2014
- Candidates announced for the Golden Plover Award 2014
- SCSTG Job Opportunity
- EARLY INDICATIONS ARE PREDICTING A GOOD GROUSE SEASON
- Wildfires in NW Scotland not caused by muirburn
- Bell Ingram Show Diligence When It Comes to Wildlife Crime
- Other Field Sports
- Shooting
- Scottish Land and Estates Statement on Non-Lead Ammunition
- Move Away from Lead in ‘Live Quarry’ Shotgun Ammunition
- Opening of the 2018 Grouse Season
- Avian Influenza – Bird Flu Standing Advice
- Growing petition to protect grouse shooting
- Grouse estates in Scotland pay out £7m in wages
- National Ladies’ Shooting Day 2016
- National Ladies’ Shooting Day – 11 June 2016
- The Gift of Grouse – Rural Communities Back Grouse Shooting as Key to Their Future
- Grouse-shooting season closes after £38m boost to economy
- STRONG COUNTRY SPORTS SEASON SET TO OPEN ON GLORIOUS TWELFTH
- Sporting Accommodation
- Surveys and Research
- Tourism News
- Brexit and Country Sports Travellers from the EU
- Lufthansa Ban on Carrying Firearms and Shotguns
- Scottish Thistle Awards Open for Nominations
- Delta Airlines announces new flights from Glasgow to New York JFK
- Flybe announces Dundee-Amsterdam flight service
- Scottish tourism visitor numbers and expenditure up
- British Airways set for Highlands return
- Tourism Webinars
- New Glasgow-Berlin route to open
- New daily service from Edinburgh to New York JFK
- New European routes into Glasgow Airport
- The Hunters’ Homecoming
- The Scottish Country Sports Tourism Group hosts special networking evening for providers
- Airline launches new Aberdeen to Oslo route
- New daily direct flights from Edinburgh to Philadelphia from May 2014
- United Airlines to offer new service between Edinburgh and Chicago
- The SCSTG welcomes new Scotland-Norway flight link
- Scottish Country Sports Tourism Group appoints PR Agency Tweed Media to promote website members to domestic and international audiences
- Tweed and Country Clothing
- Uncategorized
- Scottish Country Sports Tourism Awards Dinner Celebrates Excellence
- SAC Sporting Ladies: A Hands-On Introduction to Fieldcraft and Goose Shooting
- Let’s Celebrate World Tourism Day!
- SCST Awards – International Hunting Scotland – Best Sporting Agency
- The Appeal of Minuntion
- SCSTAwards2023: Honouring the Pioneers of Scottish Country Sports
- Scottish Country Sports Tourism Awards 2023
- Find Highly Skilled Employees: Officers Association Scotland
- Talon Gear Launches as the New Supplier of High Quality Hunting Gear
- GWCT Scottish Game Fair 2023
- SAC Shooting: Your Ultimate Guide to Country Sport Shooting
- Explore the beauty and adventure of Gledfield Highland Estate
- Your Guide to The Best Country Sports in Scotland
- Advertise Your Business and Support Our Cause
- A Highland Estate emersed in History: Atholl Estates
- Discovering Benmore Estate
- Opening day on the river Tay with Gleneagles
- How to get started when it comes to fly fishing for pike
- Why fish for Atlantic salmon anywhere else
- Your Scottish sporting adventure awaits…
- Add a touch of game this Christmas
- The House of Bruar Christmas Giveaway
- A sustainably sourced tweed clothing brand
- The perfect Christmas gifts for the country sports enthusiast
- Fish for Wild Atlantic Salmon with Gleneagles
- The Shooting & Fishing School Team at Gleneagles
- Sybarite Sporting – Overseas Hosted Trips & Safaris
- Sybarite Sporting – UK Sporting Trips
- A memorable first experience deer stalking
- A new venture at Schloss Roxburghe
- The excitement of Autumn Salmon fishing
- Boreland Loch Tay: The ideal spot for a sporting getaway
- A husband and wife team
- Prepare your gundog for the season ahead
- The cost of everything and the value of nothing?
- Thread carefully – amongst Scottish Country pursuits…
- Sourdough pizza with pan-fried grouse
- My Glorious First
- 12 questions you’ve always wanted to ask a sporting agent
- Grouse Shooting in Scotland
- Hill loch fishing for wild brown trout
- The Game Fair 2022
- Why booking with a fishing guide is the best place to start
- Your ultimate sporting lodge retreat in Dunkeld
- Are you looking for some game recipe inspiration?
- Ten best sportcations in Scotland for 2022
- Game Fairs Giveaway 2022
- Taking the first steps into deer stalking
- A Q&A session with Salmon Fishing enthusiast Marina Gibson
- Our top picks for clay shooting in Scotland
- Country Sport Scotland provider is awarded UK Professional Stalker of the Year for the fourth consecutive time
- What makes angling in Scotland so unique?
- Former Senior Police Officer becomes new Chairman at Country Sport Scotland
- BBQ Game Meat Recipe – Marinated Rump of Venison
- BBQ Game Meat Recipe – Wild Duck Breast
- BBQ Game Meat Recipe – Spatchcock Pheasant
- ‘The sky’s our inspiration, not our limit’ – Araminta Campbell
- The ultimate hunting boot for this season
- Stormwatch Gundogs Top Training Tips
- Experience the wilderness of Highland Perthshire with a stay at Boreland Loch Tay
- Gamekeepers’ commitment to conservation
- Woods Forestry and Sporting – The Scottish Example